Greece: More Strikes Make Life Miserable for Greeks, Travelers

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | July 28th, 2010 | Trackback

More strikes disrupted life and travel across Greece when both air traffic controllers and truckers walked off the job, delaying hundreds of flights and creating gasoline shortages around the country. Air traffic controllers returned to work July 27 and withdrew plans to strike July 31 to give the government time to address their concerns. Truckers who transport gasoline continued an indefinite strike that threatened to cut off gas supplies to service stations nationwide, with some 95 percent of gas stations around Athens out of fuel and three-quarters of Thessaloniki’s service stations also on empty.

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